Using the home blend chilli paste, mum cooked this mildly Spicy Bean Curd with pork slices, prawns 🦐 and tomato 🍅 wedges. She dusted the remaining pieces of the Emperor Red Snapper Fillets 🐟 (红狮) with flour and fried them. For the shabu shabu pork slices and vegetables, mum blanched them in the pot of soup stock she had on the stove.

A plate of crispy Fried Chicken Mid Wings & Fish Balls mum prepared for dinner. There always seems to be fish balls or fishcakes in the fridge as mum like buying them. It is cheap and easy to cook via boiling or frying. She also Stir-Fried Cabbage 🥬 with prawns 🦐, minced pork and tomato 🍅 wedges. Steamed rice is a mixture of purple and white variety as mum doesn’t want to eat if we used only the purple one.

Mum cooked Preserved Mustard Greens with Pork Ribs (焖梅菜) for dinner. My family love the stewed mei cai (梅菜) and meat which goes very well with rice. On my plate, there are also a fillet of fried Emperor Red Snapper 🐟 (红狮) and a fried egg 🍳. Sis had been wanting to switch the white rice to something healthier like these purple grains, but mum had been resisting the change, so now we are just adding some to the jasmine rice as a compromise.

Dinner is mum’s home-cooked Spicy Emperor Red Snapper (红狮) with Bamboo Shoot. Boneless red snapper fillet 🐟 is sliced into chunks and cooked with fresh bamboo shoots 🎍 in a chilli and spices paste we blended ourselves. Also on the plate is a roasted duck drumstick 🦆🍗 (烧鸭腿) and fried fishcakes paired with purple and white rice mix.

My Dinner Plate is looking busy with new and leftover dishes. The crispy skinned salmon 🐟 steak and chicken nuggets are freshly fried. The leftovers are the cauliflower & prawn 🦐 stir-fry and pork ribs soup 🍲 with yong tau foo (酿豆腐). Among the pieces of stuffed bitter gourd 🥒, fried bean curd puff, bean curd roll, fish ball, there are also pig’s tendons. The steamed rice is a mixture of the purple and white varieties.

Mum cooked a couple of Threadfin Steaks (午鱼) with leeks and minced pork. This premium fish 🐟 is expensive to buy so we seldom cook it, but it is incredibly tender, melt-in-your-mouth texture with a mild, sweet, and naturally rich flavour. The second dish for dinner is Braised Pork Belly 🐖 (卤五花肉) with egg 🥚 and shiitake mushrooms. I drizzled some of the gravy over the steamed rice, took this picture and dug in.

Mum had the bad habit of cooking too much. Here, she bought Roasted Duck 🦆 and Char Siu 🐖 in the morning, but she still fried the Red Snapper Fillet 🐟 and did the Cabbage Stir-Fry 🥬 with prawn 🦐, scallop and minced pork. There are only three of us eating and sis is on dieting, so she doesn’t need a lot of food. Even if I removed the fish, there are still plenty of food to be shared.